Watching and Waiting
What Hatches from Nature's Nurseries
What should you do if you discover eggs, egg cases, or galls when you’re exploring the outdoors? You should watch and wait and come back to check on them!
Author Sara Levine’s simple, lyrical text encourages readers to take time to observe eggs. Accompanied by photos of many types of eggs, egg cases, and galls, this book explains which ones you can safely collect and which you should leave behind. Back matter provides more information about featured eggs, egg cases, and galls—including the creatures that hatch from them—and expands on how to care for them at home or in the classroom.
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Reviews
Archimedes Notebook
https://archimedesnotebook.blogspot.com/2025/04/spring-is-season-for-hatching.html
Watching and Waiting: What Hatches from Nature’s Nurseries
By Sara Levine
32 pages; ages 4-8
Millbrook Press, 2025
When you find something interesting and beautiful
… what should you do? Should you poke it and prod it? Open it up to see what’s inside? Granted, that is the way curious naturalists discover things. But if you open things up, then what’s inside won’t grow anymore, says Sara Levine. So maybe you could wait?
What I like about this book: Using gentle, lyrical language, Sara ponders how one might observe nature without harming it. In particular, she offers strategies for watching how eggs develop and waiting to see what hatches out. She draws examples from birds, insects, amphibians, and reptiles. Back matter discusses what eggs are, egg cases and galls, and how to be an “observational scientist”—something anyone can do. The photos are gorgeous and will have children looking closer to study the details.
Sara is a member of #STEAMTeam2025. You can find out more about her at her website, www.saralevinebooks.com She’s also a guest author joining me at the 5th Annual Arthropod Roundtable over on the GROG Blog on April 16.
Booklist
“Very simple sentences explain concepts, and full-page color photographs provide close-ups of natural wonders, supported by action shots of young kids modeling best behaviors. . . This solid entry arrives just in time for spring explorations.”—Booklist